Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 2 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 3 | When they had all come in he closed it again . |
| 4 | The former leader of the Social Democratic Party was recently sentenced to two years eight months imprisonment for corruption ; the former Socialist Foreign Minister , Gianni De Michelis has had his parliamentary immunity lifted so he can be tried for misuse of office . |
| 5 | Now you 've come early he said , have a sit there he said and you 'll see everything . |
| 6 | printer so that when he 's hived off he 's got some |
| 7 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 8 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 9 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 10 | Hugh drank a beer ; with his sleeves rolled up he looked masculine and masterful , in charge of his family on the journey his wife had planned for so long . |
| 11 | She looked down , realising just how keyed up he was ; how close he had come to snapping at her . |
| 12 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
| 13 | He was , he said he 'd send us , once they 'd got it all sorted out he said he 'd send us a book , the book on it . |
| 14 | Eamon Wilson , The Beeches , Portadown , is alleged to have conspired with a person or persons unknown to make a threat to Sean McIvor , making him fear that if it were carried out he would be killed . |
| 15 | He could have kicked around forever in the States , and if he had never come here he might have never gotten anywhere . |
| 16 | It was just after we got married , , and he was a Lancashire lad , he came from somewhere of the suburbs of Manchester , I 've forgotten whereabouts he was |
| 17 | He had long forgotten how he had despised the old man for being mean and ignorant . |
| 18 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
| 19 | Yeah well if he gets caught again he 'll be expelled and if he 's dealing , any dealers cau caught here they 'll be expelled in instantly cos they 're actually causing harm to other people . |
| 20 | One boy called Caddles was n't educated instead he was forced to work in chalk pits . |
| 21 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 22 | By the time he let her catch him , Claire had forgotten what he 'd said , and he had temporarily forgotten why he said it . |
| 23 | Her uncle sat at his workbench looking vague , as though he 'd forgotten why he was there . |
| 24 | He had never been an impressive priest — dispensing sacraments , sermons and whist-drive announcements with the same patient ennui , like a weary shopkeeper who has forgotten why he ever started to sell . |
| 25 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |
| 26 | Having done so he says ‘ I was much revived and eased of my infirmities ’ . |
| 27 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 28 | Having done so he folded the sheet of paper again , replaced it in his pocket and made to leave . |
| 29 | Yeah , but nothing was done so he came through to me |
| 30 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |